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FOLLOWING Lewis Hamilton’s
challenging weekend in
Singapore, father and former
manager Anthony Hamilton
criticised his son’s new
management team.
“His management need to
do more,” Hamilton Sr. was
quoted as saying after the
Singapore Grand Prix.
“Look up the paddock. Every
driver that’s got a manager,
the manager is here and in the
driver’s life.”
The father and son pair
were seen as Formula One’s
strongest driver-manager
pairing as they charged to
Hamilton’s 2008 championship.
But the McLaren driver
dispensed with his father’s
services before the 2010 F1
season opened in Bahrain, and
was without a manager until
earlier this year.
When he did sign new
management, Hamilton
elected to seek representation
with Simon Fuller’s XIX, a
celebrity brand management
agency with little experience
of the rarefied environment of
Formula One.
XIX have been notable by
their absence at a number
of 2011 grands prix, and
the general consensus in
the paddock is that many of
Hamilton’s current troubles
would never have raised their
heads if only the British driver
had a more experienced sports
management team in place.
But Anthony Hamilton
has since changed his tune,
and retracted his criticism
in an interview with British
newspaper The Independent.
“I spoke with Lewis during
the week after the race. He told
me that he’s happy with the
job that his management and
Simon Fuller are doing – and
as long as Lewis is happy, then
I’m happy,” Hamilton Sr. told
The Independent.
Anthony Hamilton retracts
Lewis management criticism
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